Rein-holder



(N0 Model.)

0. PHELPS.

REIN HOLDER.. No. 303,397. Patented Aug. 12,1884.

NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

Y OHAMBERLAYNE PHELPS, OF VVESTMOBELAND, NEW YORK.

REIN-HOLDER SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 303,397, dated August 1g, 1884.

Application tiled November 30, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, CHAMBEELAYNE PHELPs, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Vestmoreland, in the county of Oneida and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combined Bein-Holder and Handle,of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

My invention consists of a rein -holder adapted to be attached to the dash-board of a carriage, and constructed to securely hold the carriagereins when not in use. The reinholder, by a little addition to bar B, may be provided with a handle of suitable size and shape to be readily grasped by and afford as sistance to a person in the act of getting into a carriage, as hereinafter fully described.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of my device attached to a dash-board. Fig. 2 isa cross-section of the same. Fig. 3 is a side view of my combined rein-holder and handle. y

The rein-holder consists of an upright bar, A, provided with two sets of arms, a c and b b, opposite each other, and a bar, B, formed upon the lower end, and extended to the npper end of the bar A, and inclined from it so as to form the wedge-shaped slot c between the two bars, to receive and securely hold the reins d when not in use. The side of bar A next to the dash-board is grooved or concaved in cross-section, as shown in Fig. 2, to fit over the convex surface or seam f ofthe dash-board. The upper arms, a ai, are provided with holes to receive a bolt extended through the arms of the holder and through the dash-board, and

the lower arms, b, are bifurcated to enable them to hold more securely upon the daslr board. Y Y

The rein-holder is attached near the upper corner of the near side of a dash-board, one of each set of the arms a and b extending on each side, and the grooved 4or concave surface of the bar A being pressed closely to the round. ed surface or- Seam f, and the ends of the arms are then bent toward ea'chother, causing them ed over and downward and solidly united to the lower part of the holder it forms thehandle C, as shown in Fig. 3, so that when the device is attached to the dash-board, as above described, the handle will be in position to be readily grasped by and afford great assistance to a person in the act of getting into the carriage. v

When the reins are not in use, and it is desirable to secure them in the holder, they are placed together side by side and inserted edgewise downward tightly in the wedgeshaped slot c, where they are securely held in place.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isl l. The combination, in a rein-holder, of the grooved bar A, the two sets of clip-arms a c and Ii b, and the bar B, all formed of one piece, the bars being rigidly connected together at one end, and inclined from each other in po sition to form between them the wedge-shape slot c, which is widest at its open end, substantially as and for the purposes described.

2. The combined rein-holder and handle, consisting of the bar A, provided with the two sets of arms a a and I b, adapted to be attached upon the edge of a vehicle dash-board, and having the bar B inclined from the barA to form the wedgeshape slot c, and provided with the handle O, formed by the curved aud extended bar B, substantially as and for the purposes described.

In testimony whereof I affix lny signature in presence of two witnesses.

CII ADBERL AYNE PHELPS.

lVitnesses: I i

JOSEPH OANDEDO, P. II. LANE. 

